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Keeping in touch – A benefit of public holidays using time use diary data [PDF]

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This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain ...
Joachim Merz, Lars Osberg
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Practices of determining dowry and pisuke prices in Lombok

open access: gold, 2023
Baiq Sonia Toin   +2 more
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The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India [PDF]

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Dowry is often adduced as an explanation of son preference in India, but there is little evidence that dowry motivates son-preferring behaviours. On the premise that gold is an integral part of dowry, we use variation in gold prices to investigate this ...
Bhalotra, Sonia R   +2 more
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Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries [PDF]

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women, assets, gender inequality, marital regimes, inheritance, land, Latin America, Africa ...
Deere, Carmen Diana, Doss, Cheryl R.
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